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imanixsupporter

When was the last time the All Whites played in a friendly outside.a window? The clubs have to release players in windows, even for friendlies. What are you even talking about?

Buffon II

imanixsupporter

My point is, we can wisely restrict minutes for the players' own sakes, but we shouldn't be doing it to appease clubs

Yes we should, otherwise as ballane correctly pointed out, we will end up not having those players made available to us in future windows where we are solely playing friendlies and not competitive fixtures.

January 2022 (in the UAE?) verus Jordan and then the 2nd game (Uzbekistan?) which was called off as the teams had several players test positive for Covid.

March OFC WC qualifying tourney in Qatar also started about a week before that March FIFA window. Danny Hay strategically chose not to pick some guys for those Jan games, to appease their club bosses re the March tourney coming up.

I remember Hay saying he found the Italian clubs (Kirwan & Libby at the time in 2022) the trickiest to deal with.


And don't be dumb IMANS.

Clubs get in a player's ear and say you need to tell your international boss you are injured and unavailable for these meaningless (in their eyes) friendlies.

"We don't want you flying 35,000 kms round trip as after the window we have 3 games in a week, and player x, player y & player z are all injured. You fly out, and we will withdraw that new 3 year contract that is currently being drawn up..................."